Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects the motor system, resulting in progressive muscle weakness and — ultimately — death. The disease ...

Formerly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is now commonly referred ... like minor and limited muscle weakness, but they worsen with time. Although some treatments ...

If you are suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, you will exhibit symptoms like tripping and falling, hand weakness and clumsiness, you will not able to do your daily chores easily ...

Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a motor neuron disease that occurs when the nerve cells in muscles slowly deteriorate.

An expansion of a hexanucleotide repeat in the C9ORF72 gene can cause ALS. Here, the authors develop a high-fidelity RNA-targeting CRISPR system to suppress the repeat RNA expressed from the ...

It affects men more often than women, and usually as symptoms begin later in life than the actual Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. People with Progressive Muscular Atrophy usually notice weakness in ...

The ALS Association will host its second ALS Nexus conference in August, with the goal of making the disease a livable one ...